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Longreads Member Pick: Someone Could Get Hurt (Chapter 1), by Drew Magary

Introduction For this week's Member Pick, we're thrilled to share the first chapter of Drew Magary's new memoir on fatherhood,  "I was in the middle of writing a second novel that would…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1103 words)

Cover Story: Daft Punk

Daft Punk started working on Random Access Memories in 2008, playing almost everything on their own and making loops, just like they had done before. But it didn't feel right. “It became clear…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (916 words)

Prince's Hot Rock: The Secret Life Of America's Sexiest One-Man Band

Prince on the cover of Rolling Stone. Richard Avedon
PUBLISHED: April 28, 1983
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1286 words)

The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. One summer night in 2011, a
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (771 words)
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This Is Punk?

One of the 100 self-identified punks (some of whom may not see the others as bona fide fellow travelers) in New York who participated in our poll.   (Photo: Lucas Michael) Punk rock has…
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (811 words)
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Infinite Jest: Dave Eggers on David Foster Wallace

The new jacket design for David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' A new edition of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, with an introduction by Dave Eggers, forms part of a series of classic reissues…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1106 words)

Summer 2005

In 1973, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow landed on my brain and exploded there like, well, a V-2 rocket. It was precisely the book I needed at the time, which tells you something about my mental…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7781 words)
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The Ghost in the Machine

One of the few things you can be sure of in this world is that rapper-producer Dr. Dre is not finished with his third and possibly final solo album, Detox. Dre has been working on it off and on for a…
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1358 words)
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